For science!

[momebie]

So, last night kel_reiley was musing over twitter about how she'd been reading a fic and a guy in his 20s had used the term 'mother hen', which she personally felt like some one of that demographic wouldn't do. That led to a discussion in which it was realized that lots of people about our age say 'mother hen', but then the question moved to whether it was

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[citibyrd]

Really, both of those phrases would be somewhere between sparsely and frequently, but I use "spoil sport" more than "mother hen", so that's why I chose that way.

[momebie]

Makes perfect sense to me. Thank you!

[barbed_whispers]

1. i have a LOT of trouble writing how other people speak, so all of the dialogue in everything i've ever written probably sounds like me.

2. i am a total word thief. i pick up accents and choice words/phrases really easily. the worst thing about lotr rps fandom was how much my brain wanted me to run around calling everyone cunting bastards, which is not really acceptable. but i pick them up everywhere- tv shows, fandom, friends, etc. so the only good thing about #1 is that if i immerse myself in a given fandom, i will start talking like i live there, and then i can write it!

[momebie]

Are cunting bastards different than gentleman bastards? And are gentleman bastards ever cunting?

And also, have you seen the Snow White & The Huntsment trailer, and if you have, do you ALSO want to see Chris Hemsworth play Jean in the Gentleman Bastards movie? I need Locke Lamora icons. Do people make those?

[barbed_whispers]

they are slightly different but there is definitely overlap!

yes! and i'm in! also fyi: ashley and i have cast jgl as locke. as far as i know, this is the only icon in the whooooooooole world! but there can be more.

[momebie]

Mmmm...I can definitely make JGL Locke in my head. Also, YES PLEASE.

[paragraphs]

3. Do you converse often with someone from another country who constantly messes with your accent and ways of saying things, as well as word usage? YES!! Nick has ruined me, and now that he lives in the UK, oh my. LOL. He is why I enunciate words more than the average Texan - my daughter mocks me for it, too.

[momebie]

I stole your question and added it to the poll! Also, enunciation rocks. (That should be a whole new episode of School House Rock. Speech Pathologist Class Time Rock?)

[paragraphs]

Oh good! Because seriously, that boy has messed me up but good. I have been asked if I was from elsewhere but no, I just mostly talk to him. I don't know why my daughter teases me about my clear pronunciation of words with 't' in them. I like crisp t's! Oh well, mock away, LOL.

[chiasmus]

Some additional phrases I use that garner weird looks if I slip and use them: "big pimping, selling it on the street", "shit fire and save the matches", "take your clothes off and roll around in it", "kissing your cousin through the screen door don't make it right".

There's also the general carriage debate I and Bostonian BFF have frequently. Also disagreement over what constitutes a milkshake. I also probably wouldn't use the phrase "I am Tom Brady confident" outside of here.

1. I try not to, but I know I project a lot of snark into my writing. I also sometimes have to go back and rework the proper grammar when it makes things stilted (because I know in everyday speech most people aren't overly concerned with whether or not they are ending a sentence with a preposition). There are probably some other smaller things, but I'll go back and try to eliminate them if possible.

2. Not really? Most of the phrases I pick up are from misquoted 80s song lyrics, Arrested Development, and Family Guy.

[momebie]

I have heard/can make out every one of those except "shit fire and save the matches". PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS.

What do you feel DOES constitute a milk shake? And does your version bring more boys to the yard than a regular milk shake?

[chiasmus]

My mother uses it quite frequently! But I've yet to really meet anyone else who does. It's kind of just a general exclamation of surprise and disbelief, occasionally a substitute when "oh hell" just didn't cut it.

I've always had milk shakes that include ice cream, milk, and possibly syrup. BFF claims that milk shakes are milk and flavored syrup, possibly not shaken. I'm not sure, but my Pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard, so that's something.

[momebie]

Iiiiinteresting.

Also, no, your BFF has wrong opinions about milk shakes. Milk shakes have ice cream in them. Milk and syrup is just flavored milk, regardless of whether it's shaken or stirred.

[afavoritemelody]

Extra credit~
1. I try to avoid that, when I'm writing I rather like the channel the character and think of what they would do/say in the situation or moment based on their personality. I really try to avoid putting myself into a character.

2.I definitely have been told I've been sounding incredibly British with the way I say certain words/phrases and I can ultimately figure I picked it up from the Doctor Who fandom.

3 I wish, but I don't.

[momebie]

1. I do the same thing really. When we were talking on Twitter last night I was sort of wavering over whether I could say I did or didn't put myself into characters. On the one hand, a lot of my original characters have the same preoccupations with choice and confusion about what it takes to be a person that I do, but on the other they don't react the way I do? And they certainly don't all have my speech patterns. It's interesting to see where the line is drawn.

2. Doctor Who fandom is a boon to society.

[afavoritemelody]

Like original characters, I do feel that sometime their speech patterns switches between mine, what I want them to have and a character from fandom, but otherwise I don't really notice any of 'me' in them.

And it's true.